The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-05-19


heart for her gentle and forgiving Re.
deemer.
But Laban had become Stole for hon
est reasons and, amongst others, that
nobody cared much about him. He was
too just to impute this to anything but
envy and moral inferiority and required
the Stole philosophy to get along alone.
Besides, he was financially successful.
Everything he engaged in turned out
ultimately we'll. A few men Of ideas and
enterprises rather deferred to Laban
Prim's cool, self-balanced mental courage
and incidental judgment, and let him
INTO their Investments, and much of his
capital was his. well-regulated life.
He was moderate in everything but
hate Of license and false Stewardship, and
he was intolerant Of opposition, because
he knew he was always right. No man
differed with him on public question
and continued to be his friend. His path
of life was q gauntlet Of severed friend.
ships and finished associations.
At last came the hour when he was to
be deserted by his mother.
The only difference between them was
Death.
Worn out with seeking to reach his
Just ideal, separated from the little affec-
tions and weaknesses of life, forever in
her great taskmaster's eye" and that
taskmaster her own magistrate son, Mrs.
Prim lay down to die, and he-a million
aire now, o censor and hector in every
thing concerning his city, State and coun-
try, their ethics and their commerce, their
persifage and their biography-was pro-
foundly lonely, profoundly bitter.
God, the unjust, had come to rob him,
Laban Prim, the ever-just. Let any man
dare to say the contraryi
But the sense of that pure essence Of
derivation from two picked, selected
scions of absolute morality sustained
him even in this awful article of death.
He could be Stole even now. To him
1t seemed like the death of Seneca, or of
"Pembroke's mother" that the Fates had
come to take the life of the mother of
Laban Print He knew they were mex
orable, but they must at least feel that he
and his descent were as proud and severe
as they.
"My son." the mother one day said, II
would like to see my sister, from the
country Of my childhood. She has been
all her life very poor and illiterate. I
have not seen her since married your
father and he would not let me visit her
any more. 1t lies upon my heart that I
have neglected her."
Mother you have son, Is that not
enough?"
Yes, praised be Je- mean Epictetus,
Laban! But when you come to die the
Things and faces OF childhood will make
playground OF the brain. In my delir-
lum 90 not see your iather or even
you, my noble son, put only my poor SIS
ters ana the mountain people again. May
see her, Laban, my last sisterY
Laban asked his grandmother what
to do-his fathers mother-in such an
extraordinary situation.
dol! exclaimed this very aged lady,
nersef outlived her generation and all
her consumptive children. why, obey
Gying wisnT
Inc poor woman came all the way from
Miaole creek vaiiey 10 the streams
meyer thought the world had so many
miles In 1t as she had Journeyed, nor hall
as many people. Her leaving nome had
peen attended Dy as much excitement az
an aucuon saie or DunKer love-feast
one came consigned IKE Jersey cow, by
express, win q laDei sewed 10 her calico
no0I: ;,
IMg Feemall cant Ieed. lei mel
Wnicn nyars 10 git on 1ur bozstoun, Mas
y, 2. OF AmaIeca. -,
ons arliveo nSariy oumD WIN appfe'
nension, incapable OF utteTing any con.
necteu part OF sentence, tili sne saw mel
slste- on tne PED OF deatn, ana wnen tney
came sogesnel WIN Years anu Joy, 1o!n
s,o y some % .s.aPse 10 OF @ se,;tespect, useo 'ne
same wSv WORDS osn IN o'a the eh;ma ssme 'nstant'
.Mhy, you ole tning
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ATTan un ,a M LESS ~ .nah ns laa over knOwn.
cle wvulo nis.o ms On .ne % DIink Oh ete,niIy
MnOHns snis il'oIc'o sistoi run on aDou'
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last picnic ~ tne n1ttiss, tne knhng ol
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sou, pe.weeI a1,. .nss y. siay Tongue ana s .ns
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wv ono woIu aDTrs T 'IG .n.eitGc'ua. -
man VINO came Irom new hamps9ire 70
touc1 mto ceIessial sPiris tne former
eqasa Ui % sae pL,s.ane pa,se slssel, =. - -.
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